Collision at Cajamarca

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a summary of human history that can be accounted, for the time being, as Darwinian in its authority." —Thomas M. Disch, New Leader "A wonderfully engrossing book. . . . Jared Diamond takes us on an exhilarating world tour of history that makes us rethink all our ideas about ourselves and other peoples and our places in the overall scheme of things." —Christopher Ehret, Professor of African History, UCLA "Jared Diamond masterfully draws together recent discoveries in fields of inquiry as diverse as archaeology and epidemiology, as he illuminates how and why the human societies of different continents followed widely divergent pathways of development over the past 13,000 years." —Bruce D. Smith, Director, Archaeobiology Program, Smithsonian Institution "The question, 'Why did human societies have such diverse fates?' has usually received racist answers. Mastering information from many different fields, Jared Diamond convincingly demonstrates that head starts and local conditions can explain much of the course of human history. His impressive account will appeal to a vast readership." —Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Professor of Genetics, Stanford University

GUNS,

GERMS AND STEEL
THE FATES OF HUMAN SOCIETIES

Jared Diamond

W. W. Norton & Company New York London

To Esa, Kariniga, Omwai, Paran, Sauakari, Wiwor, and all my other New Guinea friends and teachers— masters of a difficult environment

References: 3
entrances into that controversial literature: Colin Renfrew, Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), and J
FURTHER READINGS
Oliver Dunn and James Kelley, Jr., The Diario of Christopher Columbus 's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989)

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